on the shoulder of river while transferring passages from one star from one town on the river to another apparently there has been an under storm and the vessel has got caught up in that and stank very very quickly at the depth of about twenty meters three kilometers away from the from the shore of course the criminal case has been launched into to investigate this calls for they're also russia's president medvedev has ordered a special investigation to find out the exact cause of the sinking we also know that at this point the rescue mission still continues russia's ministry of emergencies it is sending a special plane with divers and all their equipment on board in order to help by the to understand the public in searching for those people missing and possibly recovering bodies. all right many thanks indeed arena and of course we'll come back to some more developments later. in georgia was three high profile

photographers have been charged with spying for moscow to release a claim that has video confessions to prove their guilt but skeptics say hail cycle me is on which hunt to score political points off he's tom daschle reports now on what's being seen as anti russian hype. georgia is on a spying roll and not for the first time this time the spotlight being shined on those usually behind the camera for photographers were arrested on thursday on suspicion of spying but who was that supposed it must but first georgian authorities didn't say who they thought the alleged spies were working for but a day later they did russia into the moscow has accused georgia of power knowing the judges are so quick to stick a splash into anyone i guess is just a level of democracy and that has been noticed not just by russia but by various key international organizations like the un one of the photographers was released without charge the other three were charged with espionage and will remain in

pretrial custody for two months one of them has gone on hunger strike in protest. however georgian president mikheil saakashvili his personal photographer has reportedly made a video confession admitting to spying for russia opposition figures are skeptical she was not the only people like you and they have a very small child to enjoy your time to time where everything has gone down but there are no real when we go out and we never saw any kind of real they're human creations that the government bring to it this isn't the first time this has happened last year thirteen people were arrested and accused of being on russia's payroll earlier this week nine of them received sentences of up to fourteen years in prison for the georgian government this is a matter of national security but others in georgia are very critical of what they see as particular political calculation. interaction.

you are. no. words because. a russian who's never or who's put this is where it's likely. going. to police he must know deal with the most serious about negation spying it has a neighbor with whom its relations are rock bottom and it has some men in jail but many are questioning whether this is really about justice or about politics on bottom ninety. minute stays vowing to side any member of the security forces accused of killing protesters during the uprising that toppled former president hosni mubarak the statement comes after thousands of egyptians turned out for the biggest rally nuns angered over the slow pace of prosecuting officials and reforms

the people say they will keep fighting until they see change and he said now it is at the same for us. egypt's uprising might have ousted. resident mubarak but to them he's far from gone thousands of people out here on top here they all see different visions of egypt but they join together because the people we've spoken to feel like their revolution has been still there we go through the books of the mobile. life and when the taste of freedom was short lived the military is in full power mass media is being choked and oppression still rampant force them to feel i think they werent catching activists as much as they are doing now and take them to a prison and i guess now they're being greedy violent they want to kill that evolution this village and the first place he's known simply as uncle horst i'm here in egypt a social network or with

a twitter army of some thirty thousand followers the military throes of civilians have to stop immediately immediately this is you know one of the major demands we're putting forward one of many demands including transparent trials for the fallen regime and the purging of corrupt officials they got rid of mubarak you know their high ranking officials but now egypt will be the same way it was on the floor january sort of well that little officials a little mubarak so many new york's rather what they're offering them are running the country people like myself have been arguing for taking the high you to the factories taking the higher you to the universities seeking to have to the wood places meaning that in every single word police we have an egypt that is amenable now water was never interested in politics in till january she was shot with twenty three pellets by riot police twenty of which are still in her like the pain is finally gone but her perseverance is not the barrier of fear is

gone and she will continue to fight to the end i want every every. in citizen to be treated as a human being every protester has their own vision of the egypt they're fighting for some want to constitution then free elections others think the new laws should follow the vote but one thing that brings them all together is that this egypt is not the it and he said no way are cheap. for sheep or a policy that activates detained in israel for trying to reach gaza being denied access to see lawyers they currently detained in tel aviv full taking part in airplane aid mission after their boats were blocked in greece let's now talk to a pro palestinian activist roni balkan who is in tel aviv personally thank you very much indeed for joining us so breaking the blockade is bond but flying into the heart of tel aviv don't you think the act of it being

a bit provocative. i would argue that on the contrary. what is happening actually is that over five hundred europeans and americans chose to speak clearly not to lie to the border police to. the border and state clearly that they arrived to visit palestine and they were invited by their opposed to new colleagues. in their rival solidarity for doing this they receive this. absurd treatment by the whole sporting of police and other security forces whereby usually what happens is that when visitors who want to visit the way occupied west bank or east jerusalem they have to lie to the border control in order to actually visit there they would have to say that they came to visit tel aviv or jerusalem for that

matter. we were expecting a un report to be released on the killing of shocks of its. last year when israeli troops stormed another eight for the last year so how thought do you think israel will respond to these attempts. if israel responds to all of these. accusations against its against its criminal policies of occupation apartheid it responds with sheer histeria like we just saw a couple of days ago. but this is not out of the ordinary it is amazing that the peace activists who clearly want to. show their solidarity and insist on basic values of the universe and recognize human rights and insistent israel abides by the international law are considered as such a big threat by israel. and this is something that we insist on the part of the

us. yeah yeah carry on yeah i'm part of the global b.d.s. movement and boycott divestment and sanctions movement against israel and just the other day we marked seven years to the decision of the i.c.j. the international court of justice which could be ruled the whole of the and station wall that is illegal the whole of every single so meant as illegal and also clearly the west bank east jerusalem and the gaza strip as occupied territories that was seven years ago six years ago. society. is the voice of national committee which is. which has over one hundred seventy different civil society organizations and i think leading women of invasions trade unions today we can see actions and so on and all political parties and dorsett they came out with a call to the international community to apply nonviolent means of boycott

divestment and sanctions against israel. until israel abides by as i mentioned before the international law and universally recognized there is. spec's universally recognized human rights this is already mounting with the israel be treated just like any other state no more no less and has to abide by the same laws just like any other state so what about why does support rely on the us not especially since president obama called for palestinian independence based on the pre-one thousand nine hundred sixty seven borders which actually riled prime minister netanyahu in his washington trip in may. i think the whole internal debate between ten yahoo and obama as if they are on different sides of this debate is more and more just plain more than anything else both first of all such conditions where there are no you know no. situation to set any conditions israel has no rights over the occupied

territories it only has obligations to the civil society of their three and a half million people are held in sub you mean subhuman conditions a these territories and this is not the whole thing we're not only discussing the occupation of sixty seven clearly the longest running military commission in modern time which is a brutal one a criminal one but also the commission of forty eight we are discussing with the establishment of the state of israel as an ethnic racist entity whereby it to lead to the expulsion of over seven hundred thousand native people of the land which are scattered everywhere everywhere around the world these days seventy percent of the palestinians are refugees and they have the right under international law should respect that right as well as those who remained inside the. land of forty eight

which is now the state of israel twenty percent of the citizenship in israel are but they do not have equal rights so we demand both the right for the refugees would. equality for those inside the state of israel clearly we demand the. illegal criminal of the west bank gaza strip believed to be. there was pro palestinian campaigner back in talking to us from tel aviv joining many thanks indeed. and coming up in the program just before the anniversary of europe's worst massacres in the north east he travels to trip where people are still in search of justice. and that's later but now rebels in libya part of government forces on the road to tripoli they're now moving towards the key town obviously time after a six week long on parts but the capital still remains over one hundred fifty kilometers away the rebels say that progress has been slow lack of ammunition and

nato support the alliance has been running low on workers in its push against gadhafi forces and asked germany nations and monday no europe from the group research on globalization says that nato members broke international norway supplying weapons to rebels in libya. definitely years via violating the nation's sanction as well as international law there's something called the a t t. t t v cannot supply arms to the rebels this is not new news either we've been seeing this from march they've been sending arms to the rebels whatever you want to call them the transitional council forces revolution or whatever you want to call them they are a minority. being armed by the outside in some cases they are better weapons than the actual military right now i don't see needle winning on this thing in vidor they continue to arm the rebels. the former bosnian serb general accused of ordering that should bring a massacre is likely to have

a new legal team to represent him at the hague roskam luggage angrily disrupted his second hearing berating the judges for not allowing him to have his lawyers present but many serbs feel. a notorious journalist trial would not bring full justice. explains. the quiet little town of sibling meets in bosnia and herzegovina who looks it till it you houses are being built people go about their business and in the center of the town a mosque and a church sit side by side but this apparent unity is an illusion sixteen years ago the entire region was torn apart by ethnic clashes during the yugoslav war and seventy to became infamous when the united nations stated eight thousand muslim men and boys were massacred by bosnian serb forces today and the moral for the deceased sits in the grounds of a former un military base the sort of thing it's a memorial ground as well maintained and frequently visited by locals journalists and tourists who get boston and the bosnian capital of. the tourist aren't shown

are the thousands of serbian graves that lined cemeteries all around us that have been it's a region. thousands of people were killed during the balkan wars of the one nine hundred ninety s. but cemeteries like these with entire families of murdered serb civilians only get visited by the very few remaining survivors but only comes here all the time his entire family lives here he says a bosnian muslim general is responsible so you know i was only nine years old when i said already stuck away everything i had in life first to kill my mother then my father and brother i was wounded and taken captive they held me for fifty six days and only god knows how or why i survived. but even though but on a survive his loss just like that of thousands of people here is being ignored. each was at the hague tribunal and i was supposed to be

a witness in his trial but in the end me and about thirty other witnesses were simply cast aside they didn't call us didn't ask what happened to our families and the tribunal only gave him two years in prison. the balkan war so heinous atrocities visited on all sides and perpetrated by all players but the version most often propagated by western media is rather one sided in blaming the serbs the purpose of that is to set the stage and create a rationale for so-called humanitarian interventions which indeed occurred in considerable number the math of structure in it so that so-called precedent can be traced through the years and into today's headlines bosnia iraq afghanistan and most recently libya have all played unwilling hosts to nato troops and u.s. imposed no fly zones but it is very important in the creation of the.

scenario to make sure that in the minds of most people. was a draw on the side which was preventable but for whatever reasons the so-called international community didn't do anything about it. some might say the journey from seventy needs it to benghazi via baghdad and kabul could now be traced as a kind of nato road map but as with any road paved with good intentions there is only one possible destination castree knows are about r.t. bosnia and herzegovina. today's news in brief has been violence in bangladesh over a challenge to the constitution to make the predominantly muslim region or secular police use tear gas to disperse angry islam is protesters or at least fifty i thought injured although islam remains the official region the government has

remained a clueless stating absolute faith and trust in our. the us has announced its pulling the plug on almost eight hundred million dollars of military aid to pakistan relations between the two countries have been strained since osama bin laden's killing in may the white house called pakistan an important ally in the war on terror but added that the relationship must be worked on over time. and let's return to our breaking news this hour a passenger ferry with at least one hundred seventy people on board has sunk on the riba volga in russia's republic of tatarstan one person is known to have died but there are conflicting reports as to how many people are missing the vessel sank three kilometers from the shore in the area where the river widens into a nearby ship came to the stricken boats rescue to help save those on board i witness to say that thunderstorm was to blame for the sinking in twenty meter deep water emergencies ministry has opened

a special investigation center into the incident the double decker ship called the bulgaria was built in one thousand nine hundred fifty five intracoastal. these are the first images of the rescue which we're getting here at so little to see of the boat itself in deep water and of course we'll keep you updated when we get more. written scandal plagued news of the world newspaper the presses for the last time its final edition was apologetic but defined after being hastily closed by a group at magic this week the embattled media mogul flew to london to take charge of the crisis which engulfed the paper and its parent company. as international it's claimed journalists the phones of murder victims and dead soldiers families police made a number of a rest on friday including a former editor of the paper who has also served as a prime minister's press chief media analyst phil recess and what it has now lost his longstanding immunity among britain's political and. i think something changed

this week for decades british prime ministers have been on their knees to the to the murdoch press because they knew that when the sun which is his main daily newspaper here in britain when the sun supported a british politician running for prime ministership you know they won it and then you find on the next day you find the prime minister reading the sun looking like an idiot saying well the sun got me elected i mean you've got this meaning of democracy is diminishing of democracy really which the murdoch press was at the heart of but i think there was a for silence as well because important people needed the murdoch press and they couldn't be they couldn't attack it because of that and i think a line was crossed rupert murdoch has a very finely tuned business brain he has a lot of things going on now one of them is to purchase the largest satellite network in britain called the sky b. and that decision is about to be approved by the government that was in jeopardy i

think he felt that as a businessman he had to sacrifice the news of the world because it in terms of the whole news international it's a tiny part of all that the political class had been sucking up to rupert murdoch for so many years including prime minister david cameron he now has to stand back and say no i can't do it anymore it's going to bad. meanwhile nasa shuttle atlantis has made its way to the international space station always docked for the very last time and marking the end of the u.s. space shuttle era and right now we're able to bring you live pictures of the historic docking saw and it carried a crew of four americans and several tons of vital supplies to russian american and japanese astronauts currently working on the station this last voyage in america's space shuttle history as a painful time for many who devoted their lives to the program as account reports. empty shelves of what was once florida's thriving space coast.

up to ten thousand people will be out of a job as soon as the last shuttle makes its final voyage back to earth home to many of the kennedy space center workers rock which is on the verge of becoming a ghost town without the space program or pretty much nothing i mean this is what you know cocoa beach is built on the space program you know just a lot of people are going to be out of jobs. people are going on welfare left and right stand in sydney chris a fully spent twenty three years with the shuttle launch team as an engineer with a plan to splice thing down for its final mission it means the end of his career with nasa and the beginning of uncertainty a year ago he started looking for a new job to no avail i have applied for jobs and so far i haven't gotten any concrete responses there's not that many jobs out there we're sure the u.s. scrapped its shuttle program and now wants the private sector to come up with ways to get astronauts to space several companies are working on new vehicles but it's

not clear when they'll be able to deliver them one thing is certain though they'll be able to hire only a fraction of the skilled space industry workers will be out of work this is the first shuttle ever it never made it to space but it was going to put this. before the columbia shuttle first launch into space in nineteen eighty one a total of five shuttles had been used for space missions since that two of them were last name tragic accidents a nine hundred eighty six and in two thousand and three those lawsuits and the skyrocketing price for each launch gradually led to the cancellation of the program but critics say it's hard to estimate the losses that the end of the shuttle program will bring about both for the space industry and the people involved i think it's a really bad thing for the united states to lose this skilled workforce it's going to be difficult to rebuild it for years the shuttle has been the only vehicle that could ferry crew and

a massive load of cargo to space officials say one of the reasons the program was scrapped is that it's safer and cheaper to send cargo and people separately something that russia for example has been doing for many years but whatever the reasons for scrapping the thirty year old program for those who devoted their lives to it is the end of their dream job it's kind of sad because i've already seen a lot fewer of my friends go in there because they'll be more people that are probably may never see again it also means the end of a once vibrant scientific community that's grown up around the shuttle going to check on our team. let's return to our breaking news story this hour a passenger ferry with at least one hundred seventy people on board has sunk on the river volga in russia's republic of tatarstan one person is known to have died but there are conflicting reports as to how many people are missing the vessel sunk three kilometers from the shore in an area where the river why don't see into a delta

a nearby ship came to the stricken boats rescued to help save those onboard eyewitnesses say that a storm is to blame for that sinking in twenty meter deep water they imagine says ministry has opened a special investigation center into the incident they double decker ship called the ball garia was built in one thousand nine hundred fifty five in czechoslovakia. and these are the first images of the rescue which we're getting here as r.c. right now so little to see on the boat itself after it sank in deep water and he has been speaking to a reporter in the region who explained more for us. there was some one hundred ninety people and among which the one hundred fifty seven passengers about eighty people were rescued by a passing boat with the fate of sixty to seventy people. right now this boat is heading to victims on board some of the injured are in hospital it's too early to list the reasons behind the accident but first reports suggest it was caught in a storm and. rescuers are arriving at the scene the operation will continue until

all passengers. and of course we will keep your cause developments on that story stay with us for that. spending the year in iraq is military journalist are. we still in the us. there is from the east the. trauma you killed. i thought oh was willing to give the life of. the twenty seven days to publicize it if you invite the right who. started the beat of the dialogue is. true to the slowly or we speak.

this is also a coming to life for most of the headlines. majority of passengers from the ferry that sank on the riba bogan the tatarstan republican central russia have been saved with one woman killed the number of missing is unknown the rescue operation is underway. in other news as we highlight the week's top stories georgia's spy hunt as a challenge is high profile photographers with snooping from moscow but skeptics say it's an anti russian image to step up president saakashvili. all says before angry trip shows as they were turns to to have squared to best against the interim leaders who they say stole their revolution while authorities ordered the suspension of policemen accused of killing protesters during february as uprisings

. behold the front page britain's best selling newspaper rolls out for the last time as a robot. not except for five as a title qualifying hakon claims and reports have intensified. and that's the headlines up next to us on the veteran and became a real if it soldier with him our son was a war cry that to highlight they've also. we .

knew. when i came home it was amazing it was honestly one of the best moments of my life i thought i was going to pass out i was so happy. there was my wife and my daughter that i had seen a year and it was just almost too good to be true is going to. at the same time though there's only so wonderful because it's been the last year away from them in iraq which was terrible and so when the t.v. cameraman came up to me and asked me some questions i told him about it. i'm really .